Removing text from strings

[mouseit101]

I'm writing a program to emulate nuerons (can't spell for my life
sorry) and am using an array of "mailboxes" to propagate messages
through the network, but I need to be able to remove the request from
everybody's mailbox after the response is returned. The source can be
found at www.birchile.com/webbomb/brain.htm , the source is in the only
script tag there. To be specific I want to delete text from the mb
array using the look() method of the n object.

--Thanks for listening,
mouseit

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

mo********@gmai l.com wrote:

I'm writing a program to emulate nuerons (can't spell for my life
sorry)
Do you mean "neurons", as in "cortex"? (BTW, spell checkers exist.)
[...] To be specific I want to delete text from the mb
array using the look() method of the n object.

Sorry, your code lacks any sign of code style, particularly indentation, and
there is no inline documentation whatsoever. Fix that and come back again
if you want advice _for free_.
PointedEars

[mouseit101]

Yeah I dont really bother with comments or the like, dont need it, and
I'm waaay to lazy to find a spell checker (Microsoft Word takes
forever).

[mouseit101]

Thanks anyways I think.

[Patient Guy]

"mo********@gma il.com" <mo********@gma il.com> wrote in
news:11******** **************@ o13g2000cwo.goo glegroups.com:

Yeah I dont really bother with comments or the like, dont need it, and
I'm waaay to lazy to find a spell checker (Microsoft Word takes
forever).

It is difficult to read unindented code and especially make sense of it
when you don't use semicolons to end statements, a really bad practice.
You probably never learned C or any of its object-oriented descendants, but
ending statements in a semicolon is NOT an option in those languages, and
why Javascript made it an option is anyone's guess, except maybe to please
those who lack any sort of discipline such as barely commenting their code.

It would also help if you use more descriptive identifier names for
variables and functions/methods/properties. Functions that are declared as
'sd' could actually be named 'sendDirectMail ' if that's what they in fact
do. It makes code more easily debuggable by others----something you are
requesting here. Moreover, the Javacript language designers encourage the
use of descriptive identifiers.

The only way of debugging your problem is to load it up into a debugger to
track execution, and you don't even suggest inputs to your form to attempt
to help us reproduce the problem you are having.

Give that original post of yours and your source code some more thought.

[mouseit101]

Actually C and C++ were the first two languges I learned, Processing
does it and I do a lot in that so im used to it. As for indented code
I just don't see the point... I can read it fine sans indents. Also
sorry about the comments I guess I dont really have an exuse for that.

[Randy Webb]

Patient Guy said the following on 1/15/2006 4:26 AM:

"mo********@gma il.com" <mo********@gma il.com> wrote in
news:11******** **************@ o13g2000cwo.goo glegroups.com:

Yeah I dont really bother with comments or the like, dont need it, and
I'm waaay to lazy to find a spell checker (Microsoft Word takes
forever).

It is difficult to read unindented code and especially make sense of it
when you don't use semicolons to end statements, a really bad practice.

Using semicolons to end statements is optional so I am not sure how you
can say that something that isn't required is "bad practice" per se in
Javascript itself. Is it a bad practice when moving to other languages?
Absolutely.

I have yet to see code (and am interested in a *real world example*)
where leaving the semicolon off breaks the code but inserting it fixes
the code.

When I say "real world example" I am not asking for a theoretical
situation where the code would never be used for any purpose other than
showing the lack of ; causes an error but adding it removes the error.

--
Randy
comp.lang.javas cript FAQ - http://jibbering.com/faq & newsgroup weekly
Javascript Best Practices - http://www.JavascriptToolbox.com/bestpractices/

[Zif]

mo********@gmai l.com wrote:

Actually C and C++ were the first two languges I learned, Processing
does it and I do a lot in that so im used to it. As for indented code
I just don't see the point... I can read it fine sans indents. Also
sorry about the comments I guess I dont really have an exuse for that.

Stuff 'em - if it was hard to write, it /should/ be hard to read. If
they can't read it, they don't know enough to help, right?
--
Zif

[Randy Webb]

Zif said the following on 1/15/2006 7:58 PM:

mo********@gmai l.com wrote:

Actually C and C++ were the first two languges I learned, Processing
does it and I do a lot in that so im used to it. As for indented code
I just don't see the point... I can read it fine sans indents. Also
sorry about the comments I guess I dont really have an exuse for that.

Stuff 'em - if it was hard to write, it /should/ be hard to read.

That's not true. The easier code is to read the easier it is to maintain.
If they can't read it, they don't know enough to help, right?

If you want to believe that, then go ahead. It is very far from the
truth though. Many people, myself included, simply don't care to sit and
make code readable to be able to help a person who is asking for *free*
help. If you want free help, then you should endeavor to please the
people you are asking for help from.

--
Randy
comp.lang.javas cript FAQ - http://jibbering.com/faq & newsgroup weekly
Javascript Best Practices - http://www.JavascriptToolbox.com/bestpractices/

[Patient Guy]

Randy Webb <Hi************ @aol.com> wrote in news:c6Gdnb83xa BKPVfeRVn-
[e-mail]:

Patient Guy said the following on 1/15/2006 4:26 AM:

"mo********@gma il.com" <mo********@gma il.com> wrote in
news:11******** **************@ o13g2000cwo.goo glegroups.com:

Yeah I dont really bother with comments or the like, dont need it, and
I'm waaay to lazy to find a spell checker (Microsoft Word takes
forever).

It is difficult to read unindented code and especially make sense of it
when you don't use semicolons to end statements, a really bad practice.

Using semicolons to end statements is optional so I am not sure how you
can say that something that isn't required is "bad practice" per se in
Javascript itself. Is it a bad practice when moving to other languages?
Absolutely.

I have yet to see code (and am interested in a *real world example*)
where leaving the semicolon off breaks the code but inserting it fixes
the code.

When I say "real world example" I am not asking for a theoretical
situation where the code would never be used for any purpose other than
showing the lack of ; causes an error but adding it removes the error.

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=se...vascript&hl=en

The 1st, 2nd, and 4th links in that results page show good threads
containing posts from individuals who urge the use of semicolons in
Javascript, and those who shrug their shoulders about whether they should
be required.

I write Javascript pretty much the same way I used to style C, from which
Javascript ultimately derives. The inclusion of semicolons makes code
readable and maintainable by others, even if the interpreter can whiz
through it and insert the end-of-statement tokens itself.